So, if I'm understanding the way Regulators work, they can only bring a person back to life if the wearer is killed by non-natural means. If a person dies of old age or an illness, they aren't revived. That much is clear.
That being said, is there anywhere in the MSQ or sidequests, that elaborates on what the other limitations are, if any?
We saw Zoraal Ja get cut down by his father, that one NPC get killed by a monster, and several NPCs dying during the attack on Solution 9, before being revived. The thing about these deaths though? They were all 'clean', for lack of a better word.
What I mean by that is these characters weren't decapitated, dismembered, burned to ashes, disintegrated or anything more extreme. For obvious reasons, the game doesn't usually depict any of this (T rating and all), but let's go back to the end of 2.x
What would happen if Teledji Adeledji was wearing a Regulator when Raubahn cut him in half? Would he be revived and brought back in one piece? Or would he just immediately die again?
How about if Raubahn was wearing one too and Ilberd cut his arm off? If he was killed shortly aftewards, would he have his arm reattached when he revived or not? It sure would suck to lose an arm, get killed a day later, and then come back to life without said arm.
The Arcadion has combatants fighting to the death because the Regulators allow for them to be revived, so I can't help but wonder how this works when I see Black Cat's extremely sharp claws, Brute Bomber's explosives, and Wicked Thunder's cannon. These are all very.. potentially messy deaths.
I realize this is probably not something we're supposed to think about, but given some of the more.. naive writing this expansion has had going for it compared to what we've had before, stupid hypotheticals like this are just nagging at me. Anyone else?
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That being said, is there anywhere in the MSQ or sidequests, that elaborates on what the other limitations are, if any?
We saw Zoraal Ja get cut down by his father, that one NPC get killed by a monster, and several NPCs dying during the attack on Solution 9, before being revived. The thing about these deaths though? They were all 'clean', for lack of a better word.
What I mean by that is these characters weren't decapitated, dismembered, burned to ashes, disintegrated or anything more extreme. For obvious reasons, the game doesn't usually depict any of this (T rating and all), but let's go back to the end of 2.x
What would happen if Teledji Adeledji was wearing a Regulator when Raubahn cut him in half? Would he be revived and brought back in one piece? Or would he just immediately die again?
How about if Raubahn was wearing one too and Ilberd cut his arm off? If he was killed shortly aftewards, would he have his arm reattached when he revived or not? It sure would suck to lose an arm, get killed a day later, and then come back to life without said arm.
The Arcadion has combatants fighting to the death because the Regulators allow for them to be revived, so I can't help but wonder how this works when I see Black Cat's extremely sharp claws, Brute Bomber's explosives, and Wicked Thunder's cannon. These are all very.. potentially messy deaths.
I realize this is probably not something we're supposed to think about, but given some of the more.. naive writing this expansion has had going for it compared to what we've had before, stupid hypotheticals like this are just nagging at me. Anyone else?
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